Speaker Johnson says House will pass Trump's voter ID bill through arduous process after GOP revolt

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Speaker Johnson says House will pass Trump’s voter ID bill through arduous process after GOP revolt

By Alison Main

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/05/politics/johnson-house-voter-id-bill

Johnson pointed out that the House has passed a version of the voter ID bill multiple times, adding, “We’re going to try one more time on a budget reconciliation bill, and I think that will be the way to get it through the Senate, and finally to the president’s desk.”

House GOP leaders believe that using a budget framework, which would only require a simple majority of votes, to pass the SAVE America Act with only Republicans in both chambers of Congress is the best path forward. They have successfully used this method twice during Trump’s second term – to advance a major domestic agenda law and to fund immigration enforcement.

However, many Senate Republicans are skeptical that they could muscle the legislation through under their strict rules around the budget reconciliation process.

During the last reconciliation push earlier this year, Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that Trump’s expansive voter ID bill did not comply with the chamber’s rules dictating which legislation is eligible to be in a budget framework.

[-misanthroptimist]

1. So...they are no longer the House of Representatives?

I guess toadying is easier than representing. You only have to listen to one person when toadying.

[2naSalit]

4. FUck that asshole...

He could fall out a window of a tall building and most of us wouldn't be sad.

[-misanthroptimist]

6. I can't argue with that

I just wonder if he has enough sensory apparatus to notice he fell?

[underpants]

2. So GOP poo flingers hammed things up BECAUSE it hadn't gotten to Trump's desk

through the Senate so now Moses Mike has to twist into a pretzel to get it back to the Senate. I’m sure there’s mutual professional respect but Senators are looking at House members like 🙄

The Republican Senators have seen all the analysis from every side that says the SAVE Act will be more disadvantageous to THEIR voters, short and long term, than to Democrats. Getting to 60 was impossible but with two loose primaried GOP senators it’s even more unpossible.

[LisaL]

12. Yep, cause who doesn't have passports?

It's not people in the big city.

[Bettie]

17. My youngest son who is

going to be 18 before the next election made sure he got a passport, so he can vote.

Then, he looked at me and said "But, as a white male, they'd never try to stop me from voting".....then he told me what he thinks of that.

It wasn't very polite....that's my boy!

[underpants]

21. Simply moving becomes a hassle

Especially if your name has ever changed. Kinda keeps people stuck in a house huh? But voting not be your big concern.

The move to our house 7 years ago was the 18th move I’d made.

[Bmoboy]

18. Plus no McConnell.

[LisaL]

20. McConnell voted no.

NT

[Lovie777]

3. Johnson is a wimp...................

the republican party no longer believes in "freedom".

Karma has a special place for them.

[bluestarone]

5. My God, please tell me that this will NEVER make it

Through the senate. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.

[newdeal2]

7. Assuming it even becomes law

How could they practically enforce this a few months before an election?

This is just about pleasing Trump and introducing more chaos (thanks SCOTUS) into the elections.

[chicoescuela]

9. They'll find a way. SCROTUS will approve the process midway through the voting process if they have to.

[newdeal2]

13. While I have no faith in them at all, they did rule against Trump in late arriving mail in ballots case

Again this is all happening too late. It's July. Even if everything worked out smoothly in Congress, I can't see this heading to Trump's desk for a while until next month in the best case scenario. Then there will be lawsuits. Even if SCOTUS wants to intervene, it will be too late because there's no way states can change their voting process a month before the election or while early voting has already started.

[chicoescuela]

14. I agree with your analysis but USSC finds a way to help tsf so often nothing would surprise me

[LisaL]

11. Many Trumpers won't be able to vote,

since I doubt they all have passports.

[Trueblue1968]

8. Oh he will not. He is a weakling. A little toy. A stupid Ragwort. (a word i made up meaning the WORST of humans. )

[LisaL]

10. Boggles the mind.

They just don't give up, do they?

[struggle4progress]

15. I am not convinced that we will end in a happy place by skipping merrily down the road Mikey wants us to follow

https://garystockbridge617.getarchive.net/media/the-dead-body-of-benito-mussolini-piazzale-loreto-e69f96

[krawhitham]

16. It'll fail the Byrd bath, but at least maga mike can tell his dear leader that he tried really really hard

[no_hypocrisy]

19. Let me guess. It will be incorporated into the latest Reconciliation Bill by

putting in funding for the SAVE Act with one dollar.